A prophecy of doom coming true

Writer/Director Alan Gorg

This movie PROPHECY&POLLUTION (80 minutes) was requested by Hopi elder activists a half-century ago, but writer/director/producer Alan Gorg took about fifty years to put together this mix of documentary, docudrama, and animation. Meanwhile, history caught up with the Hopi prophecy that digging out Mother Earth for fuel would bring humankind to disaster. Scenes of what oil and mining companies have done to indigenous peoples around the world preview what could be coming to all of us.

The first part of this trilogy presents the documentary AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HOPI (9 minutes) to make the point that for a thousand peaceful years the Hopi had been doing all right by themselves out on the high desert in what in now Arizona and, like most indigenous peoples, neither needed nor sought modern industry and so-called civilization.

In the second part, a docudrama entitled EARTH SPIRIT (35 minutes), oil and mining companies come to exploit the land, provoking the kind of conflict and protest many indigenous peoples around the World have endured. Robert Tena brings spirit to the role of a pueblo teenager so corrupted by city life that his mother, played with emotional depth by Betty Matwick, carries him back to the reservation, where, like most indigenous people, she must choose between a simple life and modern convenience and comforts. The shocking death of Forrest Wood as her uncle convinces her to heed the prophecy.

The third part THIRD WORLD INVESTMENT SEMINAR (36 minutes) shows through animation and documentary clips the prophecy fulfilling for indigenous peoples in the Americas and Africa with terrible scenes of suffering and mourning for the ill and dying. The human toll is wide and intense.

This footage does entertain as well as inform. Caricature animations of Milton Friedman and other business leaders who have promoted worldwide investment in energy development should provoke discussion and curiosity, but the tragedies shown here are not entertainment as we see what horrors have been fueling our cars and plans and nuclear reactors and atomic bombs for decades. These stories should be presented in every college classroom and on television for all to see the results of what we are doing here on Earth and what could be coming to us in our turn if we ignore what those Hopi elders have been trying to tell us.

The film has a website:

http://prophecyandpollution.wordpress.com

A trailer can be viewed here:

http://indieflix.com/film/prophecy-pollution-32759/

A dvd can be obtained here

By: Lee Leslie